Combined rug and fastening therefor.



D. J. O'LEARY.

COMBINED RUG AND FASTENING THEREFOR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-28.1917.

Patented Apr. 2, 1918.

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DANIEL JOHN OLEARY, 0F BRUFF, IRELAND.

COMBINED RUG AND FASTENING THEREFOR.

Application filed August 28, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL JOHN OLEARY, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Brutl', Co. Limerick, lreland, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Combined Rugs and Fastcnings Therefor, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in traveling rugs and fastenings therefor, and comprises improvements on my former invention described in United States Patent No, 1,242,717, October 9, 1917, and my present invention has for its object to provide means whereby said traveling rug may be more rapidly adjusted with less trouble especially in cases of emergency, while providing a fastening of simple and substantial construction and which is not liable to get out of working order.

According to my present invention, I provide a traveling rug adapted to wrap approximately once and a half around the wearer and having a fastening comprising a strap with reinforcing strip riveted onto the waist line of the rug and to the rear thereof and having a guard ring at the other end and spaced and elongated holes with a special buckle having a headed protuberance adapted to engage with any of said elongated holes, the whole in combination with a U-shaped fastener fixed to the front portion of the rug in such a manner that said strap and said special buckle may be rapidly engaged with or disengaged from said U-shaped fastener, and in combination with and above said U-shaped fastener is used an emergency or reserve buckle of the known kind and to which may be fastened the said strap, if desired, in lieu of using said U-shaped fastener.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 shows a plan view of said rug, strap and fastening andcomponent parts in the lapped position, the ordinary buckle, herein referred to, being left out in this view for the sake of greater clearness. Fig. 2 shows an elevation of the rug and fastening complete, with said buckle of the known type shown in the inoperative position. Fig. 3 shows an elevation of said rug with its component parts in a spread out position. Fig. 4 shows a side elevation of the special buckle, and Fig. 5 an end elevation of same. Fig. 6 shows a side elevation of said U-shaped fas toner, and Fig. 7 an end elevation of same,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2, 1918.

SerialNo. 188,580.

all of the foregoing constructed and arranged in accordance with my said invention,

The rug 1 is adapted to lap approximately once and a half around the wearer, and is provided on the rear of the waist line with a strap 2- riveted at 3 by rivets 41., or sewn on, and a reinforcing strip 5 to the rug 1, said strap having spaced elongated holes 5 adapted to engage a headed projection or protuberance (5 of a special buckle 7 which latter is slotted at 8 to receive said strap; and to the front portion of the rug at f.) is fixed by means of rivets 10 and a reinforcing strip 11, the fastener 12 which is U-shaped at 13, as shown in Fig. 7, the open end of which is placed up or down, as desired, to engage with or disengage from the strap 2, and which is adapted to frictionally ei'igage at 11 with the special buckle 7, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The reinforcin strip 11 is further secured to the rug 1 by sewing on to the same at 15. The other end of the strap 2 is provided with a guard ring 16 having the known kind of spring-catch 1.7, so that the said guard ring may be easily attached to or detached from said strap, this guard ring being for the purpose of preventing the special buckle 7 from falling off said strap by gravity when disengaged from said elongated holes. As shown, the fastener 12 is flanged and holed at 18 for fastening to said rug. Above the fastener and riveted to said rug at 19, is the known kind of buckle 20 to which the free end of the strap 2 may be connected, if desired, when the guard ring 16 is removed, in lieu of using the fastener 12. By means of the U-shaped fastener 12, which may be inverted, the strap 2 may be inserted into or detached from the U-shaped slot at 13 so that greater safety is insured in cases of emergency as when driving in the carriage of a runaway horse, while by means of the special buckle 7 any adjustment is easily made by shifting the head 6 to any elongated hole 5 which latter insures an easy attachment to or disengagement from said strap and with greater security owing to the narrower portion of the elongated hole gripping the lower portion of the head or projection 6 when in the operative positlon as in Figs. 1 and 2. Said rug is preferably made of some waterproof material and lined with some soft and warm material on the inside, and said fastening with component parts may be made of any suitable material. Said fittings or fasteners are intended for all classes of traveling rugs.

Having described my invention, What I claim is:

A combined rug and fastening therefor comprising a rug adapted to lap approximately once and a half around the wearer, a strap with reinforcing strip riveted at one end to said rug, said strap having elongated spaced holes, a guard ring at the opposite end of said strap, a special buckle slotted to receive said strap and headed to engage with said elongated holes therein, and a U- shaped fastener fixed to said rug and adapted to engage With said strap and said special buckle, si'lbstantially as herein described.

Signed by me this 10th day of July, 1917.

DANIEL JOHN OLEARY. Witnesses J OSEPI-IINE MCCARTHY, ANDREW MORONEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents, Washington, D. C. 

